SURVIVAL SKILLS HEADLINES
- Attend class & pay attention, take lecture notes, write in your book
- Read the text before class
- Fully participate in the experiments and analyses
- Summarize lab and lecture immediately after class
- Learn and use 5-Step problem solving method
- Do the homework problems - if you have trouble, ask about problems in class
- Participate in after hours sessions and do extra review problems
Syllabus - READ IT!
It is contained at the front of the textbook. It tells you how to be successful in the class. Each course's syllabus is a slight variation on a common theme. Following are syllabus headlines:
- OBJECTIVES:
- Multi-level exposure to basic physics concepts
- Mathematical skills
- Laboratory techniques
- Team learning/cooperation
- Analytical thinking
- Problem solving techniques - Five-step problem solving technique
- Leadership skills
- Effective oral/written communications
- Self-study with assigned problems to solve
- Develop self-confidence in his or her own abilities.
- Specific content - refer to course textbook for your course (170, 171, 172 or 270)
- Instruction:
- Introductory subject lecture with experiment briefing.
- Assigned self-study reading and problem set
- Daily laboratory experiment demonstrating concept/law conducted by lab group with instructor supervision and guidance.
- Experiment analysis by lab group extending observed results to other applications of the physics concepts.
- Concluding lecture on concepts and applications.
- Review of lab report by instructor with each lab group to reflect on and correct misunderstandings and reinforce what has been learned.
- Test on the concepts/laws and applications covered.
- Review of test individually with instructor to reflect on and correct misunderstandings while reinforcing what has been learned.
- After hours instruction and individual tutoring available.
- 15-20 laboratory experiments - problem-solving laboratories are included to teach and demonstrate the Five-step problem solving technique.
- Make-up work in case of hardship only - see instructor
- Assessment: Periodic examinations (approximately weekly - open book), Daily lab experiments, Daily lab group analyses of experiment, Periodic group leadership/supervisory experience, Instructor review of each lab report, Instructor review supervisory grade, Instructor review of each test
ASSIGNMENTS:
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Complete reading assignment before class
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Do assigned and review problems. Answers are provided. If you are unable to get the correct answer, ask for clarification in the lecture class or during the lab period.
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If you need to brush up on your math skills you may want to attend after hours Monday and Wednesday in Building 466, the walk-in math/science lab opened Monday-Friday on campus or after hours sessions as announced.
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Lab report must be turned in no later than the beginning of the next lab class.
Lab Grading:
Experiment performed and report turned in .... 4 points
Accuracy and completeness of experiment .... 2 "
Questions & problems completed correctly.... 3 "
Neatness................................................................ 1 "
.................................................................................10 points possible
QUARTER GRADE: We expect to have up to 16 experiments, in addition to the 3 introductory labs. The estimated point count is as follows:
3 introductory labs....... 30 points
16 labs x 10 ..................160 "
Supervisor grade.......... 60 "
3 tests x 50................... 150 "
final exam..................... 150 "
.......................................550 points total
Your grade will be determined by dividing your total points by the total possible. The % value will be translated into the official grade according to the schedule below.
Decimal Point Grading Scale for INDTT Physics
Percentage Point
|
Percentage Point
Grade Grade |
|
86.5 - 87.4
85.2 – 86.4
83.8 – 85.1
82.5 – 83.7
81.8 – 82.4
81.0 – 81.7
80.3 – 80.9
79.5 – 80.2
78.1 – 79.4
76.6 – 78.0
75.0 - 76.5
74.2 – 74.9
73.4 – 74.1 |
3.0
2.9
2.8
2.7
2.6
2.5
2.4
2.3
2.2
2.1
2.0
1.9
1.8 |
|
72.5 – 73.3
71.8 – 72.4
71.1 – 71.7
70.3 – 71.0
69.5 – 70.2
68.5 – 69.4
67.5 – 68.4
66.5 – 67.4
65.5 – 66.4
64.5 – 65.4
63.5 – 64.4
59.5 – 63.2 |
1.7
1.6
1.5
1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6 |
95.5 – 100
94.5 – 95.4
93.5 - 94.4
92.5 - 93.4
91.8 – 92.4
91.0 – 91.7
90.3 – 90.9
89.5 – 90.2
88.5 – 89.4
87.5 – 88.4 |
4.0
3.9
3.8
3.7
3.6
3.5
3.4
3.3
3.2
3.1 |